[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] e820 table correction

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Mon Feb 5 18:28:07 CET 2007


Roman Kononov <kononov195-lbl at yahoo.com> writes:

> On 02/04/2007 12:33 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Which means we want to either delete the System ROM reservation,
>> perform the System ROM reservation after other reservations from
>> the e820 map, or improve the error handling.
>
> What is the point in making reservation of a ROM which does not
> exist at all at its legacy physical location? It is disinformation.
> I would not reserve any ROM (system, video, etc.) when there is no
> ROM. The c0000-f0000 range is also wrongly converted from RAM to
> ROM by the kernel.



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